Product Manager, User Identity

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Job Summary

Palo Alto Networks is seeking a Product Manager, User‑ own and advance a foundational identity capability within our Strata network security platform.

User‑ organizations to connect identity context with network activity and security policy, supporting more precise identity‑aware security controls across enterprise environments.

The Product Manager will own the strategy, roadmap, and feature lifecycle for User‑ partner closely with engineering, customers, field teams, and product stakeholders across identity and network security.

The ideal candidate brings 1-5 years of strong technical product instincts and experience in IAM + networking/security exposure, and roadmap ownership of an identity product with the ability to work across these domains. The role requires the ability to understand complex technical problems, partner closely with engineering, and translate customer needs into clear product direction.

This role is based in our HQ, Santa Clara, California office and hybrid with onsite work 3 days a week.

Your Impact

• Own and drive the User‑ strategy, roadmap, and feature lifecycle
• Define product requirements for identity‑aware security capabilities across user mapping, authentication, identity integrations, and policy enforcement
• Partner with engineering to deliver capabilities related to user‑to‑IP mapping, Cloud Identity Engine, terminal server environments, workload identity, and related identity services
• Support integrations with identity technologies including Active Directory, LDAP, Entra , Okta, Ping Identity, SAML, OIDC, and RADIUS
• Gather requirements and feedback from enterprise customers, field teams, customer success, and internal stakeholders
• Translate technical and customer needs into clear product requirements and roadmap priorities
• Partner across engineering, UX, technical marketing, sales, customer success, and product teams to deliver capabilities from concept through launch
• Use customer, deployment, and product data to improve scalability, reliability, performance, usability, and adoption
• Develop technical product content, deployment guidance, and product enablement
• Use AI and modern product‑development tools to accelerate research, analysis, prototyping, and product decision‑making

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

1–5 years of relevant experience in product management, technical product management, technical marketing, engineering, or a related technical role

Experience in at least one of the following areas: identity/IAM, authentication, directory services, networking, network…